Theoretical and Practical Garden of Feudal Law

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A. From the Lombards and other peoples of Germany. For which the following makes a case: 1. That the authors of this law are the Lombards. 2. That most words in these Uses are likewise Lombardic and taste of Teutonic origin. 3. That mention of the Lombard Laws is made very often in our texts. Fachinaeus, in the said book 7, cap. 1, where he gathers and refutes the various opinions of the Doctors.

A. Indeed, as in the matter of slaves. Concerning which in the Digest and Code. Likewise where it deals with military service, as in Novel 53 and 97. Likewise when it is narrated by historians that fields and lands were divided and given to soldiers. And granted they had the thing itself, yet certainly the laws and names concerning fiefs were imported and constituted by the Lombards. Vultejus 1, c. 1, n. 11. Rosenthal, cap. 1, concl. 8.

A. It is certain that Gerard in tit. 1, and